"The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good"

-- John Foster Dulles

#Would Be Quotes #Be Good Quotes #United Nations Quotes

“I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.”
“Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.”

Source : "Does Joe Sestak Have A Chance?" by Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. August 4, 2009.
“Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.16, Pan Macmillan
“Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.”
“Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.”
“The insane asylum on Blackwellâ€™s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.87, Golgotha Press
“Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.”

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